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3.00 Credits
Goal Students will develop and utilize analytical tools and research skills for understanding, evaluating, and participating in the political process. Content As students investigate selected aspects of political representation and policy formation in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of American national government, they will encounter and use a variety of tools of political analysis. Applying these tools, students will present policy recommendations, hold debates, stage mock legislative sessions, and prepare briefs for cases to be heard in the Supreme Court. Taught Fall. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To develop students' ability to analyze political systems from a comparative perspective. Content The course examines methods of comparing political systems. In particular, the course will introduce students to the conceptual tools and models used in the analysis and comparison of political systems; types of contemporary political systems, such as liberal democracies, communist transition states, newly industrializing countries, and less developed countries; and processes of political development and political change. Taught Spring. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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Goals The course will enhance the student's ability to analyze, interpret, and critique texts with a view to purpose, evidence, and effect. Content The relationship between gender, power, and society in the developed and developing world is treated in fictional, biographical, and analytical accounts of the role of women in politics and society. The changing political and social status of women with an emphasis on the developing world will form an important part of the analysis. Taught Fall. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking; cross-cultural. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as WST 225.
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Goal To provide students with an introduction to the study of international relations and a basic understanding of the concepts, processes, and relationships involved. Content The course examines conflicting arguments about the nature of the international system, examining their assumptions, and drawing conclusions as to their validity. The course will also introduce students to a number of more recent issues and concerns that have arisen in international relations. Such factors as terrorism, globalization, unequal economic development, and environmental problems all challenge older assumptions about military might as the only real source of international power and raise questions of what opportunities for international conflict and cooperation exist in the future. Taught Spring Gen. Ed. Category Critical Thinking Credit 3 hours.
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Goal The course will enhance the student's ability to analyze, interpret, and critique primary sources with a view to purpose, assumptions, argument, and historical context. Content Encountering the political and philosophical content of the some of the world's major political ideologies, students read and evaluate the original contributions of modern political theorists. The focus is on liberalism, socialism, communism, fascism, communitarianism, and feminism. Taught Fall or spring. Gen. Ed. Category Critical Thinking Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To inform students of the history and operation of the UN and to prepare them for participation in Model UN conferences through the development of oral speaking, critical analysis, and writing skills. It serves as a preparatory course for students interested in participating in Model UN conferences. Content The course will examine to the origins, structure, and functioning of the United Nations. Students will also be taught public speaking and debating skills, and will gain important cooperation, negotiation, critical analysis, and writing skills through the writing of resolutions on key issues facing the international community. Students will also be required to participate in simulations of UN sessions. Taught Fall Prerequisite Permission of the instructor Credit 1 hour; Credit/No Credit grade option only; course is mandatory for students who wish to participate in Model UN conferences, although that requirement may be waived by permission of the instructor.
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Goal To introduce students to political theory's treatment of central political and moral issues, such as human nature, power, community, equality, liberty, and democracy. Content Students will read and analyze the contributions of political thinkers including Aristotle, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Rousseau, and Marx. The course will close with an analysis of treatment of some of these issues by contemporary political thinkers. Taught Fall. Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To familiarize students with the major political branches of the American federal government and expose them to the major debates within the discipline. Content The course focuses on the institutional development and characteristics of Congress and the presidency. Topics of particular interest include elections, the bureaucracy, issue networks and iron triangles, interbranch relations and the impact of personality on the presidency. Taught Spring. Alternate years Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To enhance students' understanding of the historical and contemporary role of political parties and interest groups in the American political process. Content The course examines the historical development of the two-party system, the relationship between political parties and voting behavior, elections and campaign-finance law. The course will also trace the historical development and growing influence of interest groups, their relationships to political parties, Congress and the federal bureaucracy and will examine pluralist and elitist theories of interest groups and their significance for democracy. Taught Fall. Alternate years Credit 3 hours.
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Goal To provide students with an understanding of the role of international law in the relations between states and other actors in the international system. Content The course addresses the history and sources of international law; the rights and duties of states; the impact of international law on domestic law; the use of force; human rights; and the new International Course of Justice. It gives special emphasis to international law and its relationship to the behavior of states in the post 9/11 era. Taught Spring. Alternate years. Credit 3 hours
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